"Tell those pantywaists to come up here and shovel ice!!"
Posted on 04/21/2016 7:47:27 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
For the second year in a row, and third out of the last four, being a newspaper reporter ranks as the worst job in America.
The Jobs Rated Report has been compiled by CareerCast since 1988, and ranks 200 U.S. jobs based on a wide range of criteria that includes income, outlook, environmental factors, stress and physical demands.
Just ahead of newspaper reporter is the job of logger/lumberjack, which finished at number 199 for the second straight year after being dead last in 2014.
Another media-related job—broadcaster—came in at number 198, with an equally glum outlook for the future.
For some people leaving the news business was a sigh of relief, according to CareerCast:
'The news business has changed drastically over the years, and not in a good way,' says former Broadcaster Ann Baldwin, president of Baldwin Media PR in New Britain, Connecticut. 'When people ask me if I miss it, I tell them ‘I feel as if I jumped off of a sinking ship.'
Baldwin’s time in the media, working at TV stations in the Rocky Mountains as well as Hartford, Connecticut, helped prepare her for her new career—providing public relations solutions and crisis management for businesses.
Even though job losses in the print and broadcast news business have generally slowed from a few years ago, both groups are still under intense pressure to rein in costs and improve profits.
CareerCast’s outlook for both newspaper reporters and broadcasters predicts negative growth of 9% through 2024, which means that these high stress, low paying, jobs are likely to remain among the worst jobs in America for the foreseeable future.
Editor’s Note: The original post was posted at Accuracy in Media’s website.
I thought that being a proctologist in San Francisco was the worst job in America.
Notice all the Middle-East surnames...
It takes talent to distort the truth to make it newsworthy.
I really enjoyed my morning newspaper.
It kept getting smaller, more expensive and more Democrat.
The American Press is more concerned with convincing the public instead of informing the public.
A station here had both of their morning news anchors leave to become investment advisors.
2nd worse job you ask...? liberal president!
I doubt that. Ask these snow flakes what they would rather do...be a newspaper reporter or a deck hand on a crab fishing boat in Alaska.
Plus, I'm sure Mike Rowe could come up with a few other jobs that would make newspaper reporter look real good.
A lousy job of reporting.
Eeewwwww! :)
...I mean, they actually expect you to know spelling and grammar and stuff....
Either their agenda but I bet it’s more the newspaper’s agenda instead. Look at the New York Times. Sure their reporters change things around but I’ll be it’s their policy.
"Tell those pantywaists to come up here and shovel ice!!"
The American Press is more concerned with convincing the public instead of informing the public.
Based on my few experiences with journalists the wave of Schadenfreude is strong. There wasn’t a single time when what I said wasn’t distorted and s#!+ I hadn’t said inserted. And this is after the bastards made a point of recording the interview. F ‘em.
I don't think Mike Rowe has ever done a "Dirty Jobs" program on newspaper reporters. (Same as I don't remember any Dirty Jobs programs about undertakers, forensic pathologists or proctologists.)
When I was in high school I worked at a gas station. I had to clean the restrooms too. The womens was always the worst. Looks like now they’ll be equally bad :-)
Working for a Midwest based electronics recycling and resell out run totally by slave driving, barely literate psychopaths is pretty darn miserable.
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